7-8 hours is a normal day on the water 3-4 if we are diving.

Paul, 11hrs says to me it was a tough day on the water?

As long as i feel like being out there for. Normally 8 hours or so.

nah matt , it was the best days fishing i've had here yet.

what did you get? Best day fishing we had we bagged out and were back at the ramp in 1.5hrs.

See I can't head out and fish for an hour, unless i'm heading out before work for a couple hours.

We normally put in a good 10 to 12 hours by the time we get home and clean up so I guess on average we would spend about 8 or 9 hours on the water?

Yep 8 hours

Even if we bag out early we still look for new ground, given the fact we love to fish, what's the point in only being out there for only an hour or so?
For us it's normally at least 8 hrs regardless.

from shore i do about 4 hours on dark and make 4 hours n the morning sometimes

same steve. if the boats getting wet , then it's out for as long as poss with me (tho the missus starts to complain around the 4 hour mark. very annoyed at 8 hrs )

how you fish. My old boy used to fish for the table. The day in question was 6yrs ago. 2 drifts, 4 Dhuies (from 9-18kg), 3 Nannygai and a Queenie. Not hard to do down here when there on.

Must admit i've had a couple of cracker days off Exmouth that went close to 10hrs.

Unfortunately we can't always get it wrapped up in 4hrs, We often get all our fish in 1.5hrs, but picking that time of day when the fish are on the chew is a bit of a mystery most of the time!!

totally agree with that Steve. I guess i does depend where you are, how your fishing and what your fishing for.

Must admit i've never been a fan of washing boats and filleting fish in the dark

5 or 6 for me, I try to fish at peak periods and stuff.

Cheers
Dale

fishin landbased, its not uncommon for me to fish a good solid 12+ hours. usual afternoons at the marina are about 7-8 hours, but breaming sessions are 4-5 tops. obviously overnighters being about 16ish.

Metro usually 3-5 hours.

If away I'll fish for the entire duration of the leave pass...stopping only to eat, sleep and poo. :-)

In fact, if I set up the toilet in the right spot, I don't even need to stop for that.

Landbased try go as long as possible often from 11 to 1900

would like to do and allnighter

friday 4pm -> all of friday night -> until about 7-8pm Saturday.

sometimes away for many days, but tides play a big part as well

I fish for as long as I'm allowed to!!! It's never long enough.. never!

its not the time for me its how much i can go, try to get in the boat every weekend in summer, either fishing,cruising,drinking,overnighters anything at all.

withdrawlel syptoms hit if its more than a week.

looking shity again this weekend..again, so its looks like a night in the swan, i cant go 2 weeks without getting in the water

Usually on an island trip its gentlemen's hours for take off,   0700-0800, an hour and 20 minutes drive then as soon as the first hint of the sea breeze its "on the way home and don't spare the horses James" On average one would be on the way home round 1100-1300 with a good feed.

Go back many years before the missus and kids and it wasn't out of the ordinary on a long weekend to leave Bunbury straight after work on Friday and drive through to Quobba and fish through till lunch on Sunday,take fish in to Carnarvon for freezing and back to Quobba,catch a bit of sleep then fish through till lunch on Monday, pick up frozen fish and refuel for the drive home. Next stop for the old Valiant ute was Dongara for a full tank and then straight through to Perth and down thr freeway [started at Whitfords ave] over Canning bridge and down the Old Coast road and home about 0200 Tuesday morning. After a shower and sleep off to work at 0700.

Not young, dumb and full of c#m any more   thank God!!!

land based 6 hour stints whenever possible but normally on weekends 12 hour sessions and throw a few all nighters ranging from 16- 20 hours

our usual stint on the water would be around 10 hours . if weather and time permits we would spend more time out there. never less than 5 hours. In my younger days myself and a few mates would fish from Friday around 6pm till around 6 pm Sunday night, usually getting about 2 hours of sleep on Saturday night

longest probaly 8-10hrs, really depends on the situation.

When barra fishin a 2 day trip may only get 2 hours sleep, so probably 5:30 am till 7pm the next day or earlier if you running out of beer. Then home for a shower to wash off all the mud/sunscreen/insect repellant

would be about 4 years ago ,left perth at midnight ,launched at 2 rocks by 2am hit direction bank around 3.00 am  finished carton of bulliet bourbon by sunrise then had to wait till 8.00pm that night before we were sober enough to drive back to the ramp , ended up getting back home round 1.00am  so that was about 25 hours , bagged out in the first 1.5 hours after sun but was to drunk to drive. think that was the last time i have had a drink while out fishing

till i'm in trouble with the wife and her second call along the lines... "where F are you????"...lol

but basicly a 5~8hr day on the water is the norm for me,
back in SAFFA land cause we went much deeper and further out, it was not unusual to do 14~16hrs out... leave port at 3am and back to port by 9~10pm that night!!!

on the water isn't about 6 hours, 1.5 hours getting ready and to the ramp and another 1.5-2 hours cleaning up so it becomes a full day. Bit hard to clean in the dark

4-5 hrs land based sun up sun down hight tide all that stuff

Until the GPS stops working, sometimes longer!

Jamie, there seems to be a pattern developing with you and GPS's

Haha in the most recent case, it was often resetting when you started the motor, so it was already a little temperamental.

Normally hit the water at 5am and home by ten. Catch enough to eat...have some fun with jigs/plastics... then head home.

It takes to much out of you fishing long hours..and if i want to fish 3 or 4 days in a row, short days are good.

Would normally average 5 - 6 hours on the water.